Padraig Reidy

Watch Douglas Adams tell The Greatest Story Ever Told

A reader alerts Little Atoms to this scary vision of Corbyn's Britain*/not very funny 80s sitcom. Aired in 1986, Comrade Dad was set in a future Britain (USSRGB) which had been taken over by the Russians and was now run by the Communist Party undfer its glorious leader, VS Hoskins. The title character, played by the recently deceased George Cole, is very enthusiastic about the regime: the other characters less so.

.... Fascinating archive footage of tipsy Irish literary legends

.... This cop waits for no one

.... Conspiracists, cranks and has beens are part of an attempt to forge a new reality

.... The workers of the world united round the corner from our office

.... The Top Gear presenter's reported tirade against producer Oisin Tymon is a reminder that anti-Irish prejudice still runs deep